OM-D E-M1 new 40-150mm lens: A day or so ago, I promised that in a few weeks I'll be able to post what I think of this lens... Shorten that to a few days!!!! Now, do I look like a cat...

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

A day or so ago, I promised that in a few weeks I'll be able to post what I think of this lens...
Shorten that to a few days!!!!
Now, do I look like a cat that licked the cream?
I just took a phone call from the local camera shop: I can go and pick up the lens tomorrow afternoon!
The weather forecast is good for the weekend, so I'll be able to go out and do some "trying" :lol:

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

I would be most interested in your opinion of this lens, when you have tried it out, it does not emerge here in the UK until late December.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Morning Star wrote:

A day or so ago, I promised that in a few weeks I'll be able to post what I think of this lens...
Shorten that to a few days!!!!
Now, do I look like a cat that licked the cream?
I just took a phone call from the local camera shop: I can go and pick up the lens tomorrow afternoon!
The weather forecast is good for the weekend, so I'll be able to go out and do some "trying" :lol:

If you want...have it redirected to my house, since you weren't expecting it...I'll test it out to make sure that it's up to par ;-) I'll return it in the original timeframe.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Cdouthitt wrote:

If you want...have it redirected to my house, since you weren't expecting it...I'll test it out to make sure that it's up to par ;-) I'll return it in the original timeframe.

No, sorry, it's already here. Picked it up this afternoon ;-)
I've even read all two of the pages in the instruction booklet that are in English plus all two in Dutch, the rest of the 82 pages are in other languages.

It feels beautifully balanced in my hands. Much more so than the 50-200 on the E-5.

The tripod mount comes off - nice for handheld shooting.

And you don't need to turn the lens-hood around to store it, just wiggle the ring on the hood a bit and it slides back onto the lens. Then when you need it, slide it forward again till it clicks in place.

OK, that's all I've found out so far. Tomorrow and Sunday we're supposed to have good weather, cold and sunny. So, I'll see if I can put it through its paces.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

:thumbup:

Enjoy!

jazz7 Loc: Toronto

You lucky person! I'll be waiting in anticipation to see your results. I have the EM-1 - awesome camera. Love the Pro 12-40mm so the telephoto is on my Christmas wish list, I have a feeling I'll be wishing for some time though :-(
Look forward to seeing your photos, and enjoy your new acquisition :-)

Jazz7

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

I hope Admin will forgive me for posting a 10mb+ photo.
First photo I took with my new toy, and it's a keeper (Sorry, Clint).
My environment: My usual corner on the couch, cup of coffee beside me. Over my right shoulder one light, 80 watt bulb - the last one of our stash of "regular" bulbs, not energy efficient.
Otherwise the room is in darkness.
On the wall across from me (about 15 feet away), a cross-stitched picture, framed with non-glare glass. Also a spacer so that there is about 1/8" space between the stitches and the glass.
For those of you that can't easily read the exif on the photos:
F-stop: f/8
Exposure time: 1/8 sec.
ISO speed: 6400
Exposure bias: -1 step (don't know where that came from, should have been 0).
Focal length: 150mm
Metering: Centre Weighted Average.
WB: Auto
Picture Mode: Vivid
No flash

PS - SOOC, absolutely no PP

First photo with new lens

(Download)

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Handheld at 1/8s at 150mm...dang...I'm now going to check out amazon's credit card deals now...

Edit:
Hmm, 12 month 0% interest...must...resist...the...temptation...

jazz7 Loc: Toronto

Oh my, that is impressive...thanks for posting and making me want the lens more than ever :-). Now, what can I sell to fund this must have purchase......

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

PS - to give you a bit of an idea of the actual size of this picture: There are 14 stitches to the inch, both horizontally and vertically.

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

Thank you for the post, sounds a very interesting lens.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Morning Star wrote:

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I'm getting itchy for this lens. How unwieldy is it? It looks huge but most photos don't show it beside anything you can interpret it's true size from.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

minniev wrote:

I'm getting itchy for this lens. How unwieldy is it? It looks huge but most photos don't show it beside anything you can interpret it's true size from.

Here you are, Minnie.
You can see the pencil is longer than the lens. The white "blob" behind it is a Pyrex coffee mug.
The lens will never be longer than this, unless you extend the hood, but all the zooming is done inside the body.

Size comparison

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Morning Star wrote:

Here you are, Minnie.
You can see the pencil is longer than the lens. The white "blob" behind it is a Pyrex coffee mug.
The lens will never be longer than this, unless you extend the hood, but all the zooming is done inside the body.

Thanks. I'm not understanding where the lens ends and the hood begins - around the little white mark? It doesn't look like anything I've seen before...

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

minniev wrote:

Thanks. I'm not understanding where the lens ends and the hood begins - around the little white mark? It doesn't look like anything I've seen before...

Starting from the left, you can just see the lens cap peeking out. Then the hood: the smooth area, a ribbed ring (that's the one you wiggle to pull the hood back into storage position), a beveled part, that appears to have a sharp white line on it. It's not, it's only reflected light.
To the right of the hood appears a ribbed ring with a line in it. That's the zoom-ring, mostly hidden by the lens hood, but still quite accessible to use. The L-Fn button (which I don't know I'll ever use) has to its right two white spots. They're tiny buttons to help hold the tripod foot in place. The ribbed part where on the top of the lens you can just see the name Olympus, I think is just to get a good grip when your attaching or removing the lens, and to the right of that you can just see the little red dot to line up with the camera when attaching the lens. Anything to the right of that is camera, the grey "blob" below it is the quick-release tripod plate.
Wow, looks like I've made this quite wordy, hope it makes sense :)